![]() Digital Library Federation, December 2002Īccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:29:18 Boxid IA1899410 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-237) and indexĮlectronic reproduction. Drawing on White's manuscripts, Root's literary analysis of early drafts demonstrates how unique White's essays were."-BOOK JACKET White releases his ego by realizing that he himself is inconsequential."Robert Root explores the milieu in which White began writing the "Notes and Comments" section of the New Yorker and puts in perspective the influence of popular "colyumists" like Don Marquis and Christopher Morley on the tone and form of White's work as a "paragrapher." He examines White's persistent disaffection with the demands and limitations inherent in his "Comment" pieces for the New Yorker and his experiences as a columnist for Harper's Magazine, where his "One Man's Meat" feature produced his most enduring essay, "Once More to the Lake," and took the segmented column form to new levels of accomplishment. In spite of the increasing amounts of technology, his son still has the same experiences that he had when he was a boy – sneaking out in the morning, being amused by the dragonflies. White realizes that although human lives are by themselves transient and insignificant, experiences are immortal. ![]() I watched him, his hard little body, skinny and bare, saw him wince slightly as he pulled up around his vitals the small, soggy, icy garment.Īs he buckled the swollen belt suddenly my groin felt the chill of death. White references this in the final lines: He suddenly realizes how death is so close, because he is now the father and not the son. I felt dizzy and didn't know which rod I was at the end of. I looked at the boy, who was silently watching his fly, and it was my hands that held his rod, my eyes watching. The author compares the time he went fishing with his dad and how he's fishing now with his son: The memory balances the theme of technology, suggesting that certain kinds of technology, if a person can "get close to it spiritually," are able to become almost a natural part of one's self. ![]() This could suggest that technology is impure or damaging, except that the same paragraph contains a lengthy reminiscence in which White rhapsodizes about his boyhood affection for an old one-cylinder engine. Although White sees the lake as having remained nearly identical to the lake of his boyhood, technology bars his experience and the new, noisier boats disturb the serene atmosphere at the lake. ![]() The essay shows White engaging in an internal struggle between acting and viewing the lake as he did when he was a boy and acting and viewing it as an adult, or as his father would have. JSTOR ( April 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.įind sources: "Once More to the Lake" – news Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section. This section needs additional citations for verification.
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